I left my bed

I feel slightly embarrassed there even has to be a part 2. I speak so openly and freely in the real world about sticking up for the slimmer girls and yet when i come to my rant, i completely forget about that. Serves me right for typing as i think. This ones for all you slender ladies. I was in the kitchen with one of my house mates, who was telling me she feels like she's too "skinny". I was like, crap, i forgot about this side of things. How much do these women suffer? Almost as much as the overweight or 'curvy' ones now i should think. Since there has been a big movement to stop trying to be slim, we miss out and belittle a giant group of wonderful women who are naturally slim and slender. Its suppose to be under the pretence of "body positive" but all we are doing is shaming a different body type which is just plain dumb. The infamous Meghan Trainors "All about that bass" is a prime example of that. But this is yet again, p...

I was chatting with a good friend of mine the other day on the beach. We were out in our bikinis, talking about if we had a body part we’d change. We both said we had, but that would be telling. I got thinking in more depth about what I would really like to change and why and how our society has created an image we would all like to fit. Long hair, a straight nose, full lips, large round boobs with small nipples, slim waist but with curves… you get the idea. And of course, the ever growing trend of shrinking down to a certain size. I am SO pleased to see that this is coming to a halt pretty sharply. There was a big ordeal about the latest mannequin in Topshop, idolising an unattainable weight for most women. Now, I wouldn't have batted an eye lid at it before, at least not consciously but I think that’s the operative word. Consciously. I realised how subtly I have looked at clothes on a mannequin, thought “those jeans look pretty dope” and then gone into the chan...